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!John Sweeney – 52 Ancestors #2
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| Born 24 December 1903 in Kremlin, Oklahoma |
| Married Eleanor (Elna) Sharp on 30 October, 1931 |
| Died 19 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, age 29 |
My father-in-law Joseph (Joe) Sweeney Jr. is the only male line descendant of his Irish grandfather who came to America in 1882. Joe grew up without his father or any Sweeney uncles. Joseph Michael Sweeney Sr. was killed during World War II in France. His oldest brother Bill died a bachelor in 1947, when Joe Jr. was four years old. One other uncle was John Sweeney, who died in Chicago at age 29 under mysterious circumstances.
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!!!Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
| Name: | John Sweeney |
| Birth Date: | 24 Dec 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Kremlin, Okla. |
| Death Date: | 19 Mar 1933 |
| Death Place: | Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
| Burial Date: | 21 Mar 1933 |
| Burial Place: | Enid, Okla. |
| Death Age: | 29 |
| Occupation: | Brake engineer |
| Race: | White |
| Marital Status: | M |
| Gender: | Male |
| Residence: | Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
| Father Name: | Sweeney |
| Mother Name: | Kate |
| Spouse Name: | Elna Sharp |
| FHL Film Number: | 1893719 |
{{serif{__Length of residence in city or town where death occurred:__ 7 yrs.
__Industry or business in which employed:__ All Weather Tire
__Informant:__ Mrs. Elna Sweeney, 622I Greenwood Avenue
__Injury causing death was:__ Hemorrhage into left lateral cerebral ventricle}}}
The family story is that John got into some trouble with the mafia that ended in his killing. His death certificate lists a cause of death that could coincide with a blunt head trauma inflicted on him.
To date, I have been unable to find any relatives of Eleanor Sharp Sweeney (also known as Elna Sharp), or what came of her after John's death.
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!Lizzie Breit Jacobs – 52 Ancestors #1
[img[Elizabeth Breit Jacobs, 1913, age 25|http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/11903119645_c038750ca8_o_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/11903119645/]]
| Born 8 October 1882 in Topeka, Kansas |
| Married John Peter Jacobs on 10 Nov 1903 |
| Married George G. Jacobs circa 1920 |
| Died 27 January 1970, Pfeifer, Kansas, age 87 |
When I see or hear the name Elizabeth Breit, I think of my Grandma's baby ring. My Grandma Rose was born in her grandmother Lizzie's house "in town" rather than at her parents' farm outside Pfeifer, Kansas. She was the older of twin girls, born April 2, 1938. She and her sister were given matching baby rings.
(I wonder if my ~Great-Grandma Regina had any idea she was carrying twins … I should ask my Grandma or her older sister Eva if that detail was ever shared with them.)
[img(80%,)[My grandmother Rose Jacobs' baby ring|
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I seem to recall the rings were given by someone outside the family, due to the special arrival of twins (I doubt their family could have afforded them.) When I was a young boy, my Grandma said that she would give her baby ring to me. About 10 years ago she did, and I have since passed it to my son [[Evan]], wearing it [[here→|Evan]]
Reflecting more, I think of Grandma Lizzie's hands, which I think look like my Grandma Rose's judging from the first photo above. Hands which I can imagine kneading homemade noodle dough, preparing meals for huge families, mending clothes, or caring for a sick child. These are things which Lizzie taught her daughters, and Regina taught hers, down to my Grandma whom I watched doing these same things. They are strong, but tender and loving hands. A cousin I don't know was kind enough to upload this Breit family photo to Ancestry.com where I discovered it, and so was able to see Lizzie in her youth.
Now I begin this [[52Ancestors]] Challenge, recounting what I know of one woman's life [[entwined|Lives Entwined In Us]] through hundreds of descendants – more than I ever plan to attempt counting. She is the [[maternal anchor|female line]] of my father's lineage: his mother's mother's mother.
She was married twice to German men of the Jacobs surname. Her first child was born 110 years ago; she delivered 11 children in total that I know of, and had 11 step-children beyond that. The Jacobs clan is full of inter-marriages, so the children of Lizzie's first marriage were second cousins of her step-children…and as we will see, the branches get even more tangled after that.
Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Breit was born October 8, 1882 to John H. Breit and Katharina Eberle. Both were ~Volga-Germans whose families had immigrated about a century before from Germany to the Volga River Valley of Russia. I have not substantiated the line back to Germany, but it's thought that her patrilineal ancestor was Franz Anton Breit, born 1752 in Michelstadt, Germany.
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According to his obituary, Lizzie's father John "was born in Pfeifer, Russia, on the 22nd day of January 1855. In 1876 he came to the United States settling in Topeka, Kansas where he remained for about twenty years, working as section foreman for the Santa Fe railroad. Retiring from railroad work, he came to Ellis County where he farmed for seventeen years near Pfeifer, Kansas." It goes on to say:
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Mr. Breit was married three times being father of seventeen children, of whom four died in infancy and thirteen survive him… Mr. Breit was a man of many lovable qualities, as a man, a neighbor and a friend. He was a kind husband, a loving father and above all a good Christian, having been a lifelong and faithful member of the Catholic Church. His remains were laid to rest on the cemetery at Pfeifer, Thursday morning, July 10, 1913. Nearly the whole congregation attended his funeral. R.I.P.
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//This photo was most likely taken within a year of John's passing. I love the simple gesture of Lizzie's hand on her brother Paul's shoulder.
Back row (left to right): Elizabeth 1882, Theodore 1900, Edward 1902, Jacob Dome (Maria's husband), George Dome (Dorothy's husband), Joseph 1893, and Maria 1894. Front row (left to right): Paul 1904, George 1884, photo being held is John H. 1855, Barbara 1872 (John's third wife), Tony 1911, Dorothy Maria 1897, and Leo 1909. [[Zita|Zita Breit Rome]] 1906 is standing in the center behind John's picture. John 1875 not pictured, Peter 1878 not pictured.//
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Lizzie's parents immigrated from Russia with one child, and had three more while living in Topeka. Her mother died when she was six years old. After Katharina's death in Topeka, John married Susanna Stremel on January 29, 1889. She died that same year. His third wife, Barbara Ostertag, came to America in 1892 at the age of 20 and settled with relatives in Topeka. According to her obituary, it was there she married "John Breit a widower with four children, George, John, Pete, and Elizabeth. To this union were born nine children… The Breits later moved to Pfeifer, Kansas where most of the children grew up."
A fellow Ancestry.com researcher lists a son Francis Breit who died in Topeka in June of 1896, twelve days old. The next child Dorothy Breit Dome might have been the first born in Pfeifer, in December 1897.
Nearing the turn of the century, Lizzie would have been a newcomer to Pfeifer. Her brother married Mary Anne Burgardt in 1900, in a triple wedding ceremony where two sisters married two Jacobs men. I wonder what Lizzy thought of George Jacobs when she saw him in church; if the two knew each other beyond acquaintance or felt any attraction. Twenty years later after both their spouses were deceased, Lizzie and George would marry.
On February 13, 1900, ''George G. Jacobs'' was married to Eva Urban at Holy Cross Church in Pfeifer, Kansas in a triple ceremony. At the same service two other couples were also married: Casper Jacobs [a third cousin of George] and Magdalena Urban, sister of Eva; as well as ''Peter J. Breit'' and Mary Anne Burgardt.
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George G. Jacobs—son of Michael, grandson of Andreas Jacobs—was Lizzy's future husband, and Peter Breit was her brother.
Elizabeth Breit married John Peter Jacobs—son of Gottlieb, grandson of Andreas Jacobs—on November 10, 1903 in the same church in Pfeifer. His cousin George may have attended the wedding. Together Lizzie and J.P. had two sons and six daughters, with one pair of twin girls //@@color(mediumblue):(twin instance #1.)@@// During the 1910 census, they lived in Ogallah, Trego County, Kansas, about 50 miles from Pfeifer, where J. Peter was listed by the census taker in "general farming." I believe their daughter Frances Jacobs Brackney was born in Kansas in 1913. They moved to Denver, Colorado sometime in the following years. According to the stories I've heard, John Peter Jacobs committed suicide March 11, 1915 in Denver, leaving Lizzie with seven children and due to deliver her eighth. That child Bertha Jacobs Urban was born in May 1915, most likely in Kansas.
During the February 1920 census, Lizzie was back in Pfeifer, listed as the head of her household and widowed. Her eight children ranged from age 15 to 4. Within the following month, she conceived another child with George G. Jacobs, her husband J.P.'s first cousin. George's wife Eva had died in 1918, after they had eleven children together. George and Lizzie had their first son together, Theodore Jacobs, on December 12, 1920. They had three children total, ending in a combined total of 22 children and step-children.
Here is where things get really tangled, as I warned you they would!
During the 1925 Kansas census, 16 of their children lived under George and Lizzie's roof:
* 8 of George and Eva's children: Tony (age 21), Steven (19), Monica (16), Regina (14), Boniface (13), twins //@@color(mediumblue):(instance #2)@@// Helen and Isadore (11), and Mary (9).
* 5 of Peter and Lizzie's children: another Regina (age 17), another Mary (15), Dorothy (12), Frances (11), and Bertha (9).
* 3 of George and Lizzie's children: Theodore (4), Paul (3), and Irene (1).
Two of George's sons (Tony and John) married two of Lizzie's daughters (Regina and Veronica.) John and Veronica were already married that year, and their first son Alvin was born in December 1925. Tony and Regina were not far behind; their first daughter Lucille Jacobs Dreher was born December 17, 1927.
[img[Anthony and Regina Jacobs|http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3699/11911669995_c492853239_o_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/11911669995/]]
//Anthony and Regina Jacobs//
Tony and Regina's seventh child (of 13!) is my grandmother Rosaline (Rose) Jacobs Unrein. They had eleven daughters and two sons. Lizzie Breit is the matriarch of a prolific [[female line]].
Lizzie buried several of her children who lived to adulthood. The first was Helen Jacobs, Regina's twin sister. She died December 29, 1925 at age 18, I believe without children.
The second was Veronica Jacobs, who like Regina had married her step-brother and second cousin. She died December 10, 1943 at age 37, and left four children who are double-first cousins to my grandmother. One of them is Doris Jacobs Schreibvogel, who attends annual family reunions of Tony and Regina's children.
Lizzie's second husband George died December 11, 1941, 66 years old. Their son Theodore died May 30, 1955.
[img[Theodore Jacobs' Military Application for Headstone|http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3667/11912557276_c5679351c6_b_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/11912557276/]]
//Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.//
Lizzie's granddaughter Rose Jacobs was engaged at this time and married my Grandpa, Elmer Unrein, on August 31, 1955. Rose has a twin sister //@@color(mediumblue):(instance #3)@@//, Isabelle Jacobs Schuckman – there are lots of twins in this family! I know of at least one in the next generation, a granddaughter of Regina, who conceived twins.
Elizabeth Breit Jacobs passed away January 27, 1970 and is buried in Pfeifer, Kansas.
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[[Her Father's Gravesite|http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44861899]]''
We won't all be so lucky to live 100 years with full health and mental agility, nor will each of our parents and grandparents. However, in recent times, most people can expect their own lifetime, extended by a child's, will likely reach 100 years. The reach of Lizzie's [[parent/child]] lifespan was 123 years. Her youngest daughter ''[[Irene Jacobs Simmons|http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83064002]]'' died in 2006.

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!Katherine Maher Uhler – 52 Ancestors #3
| [img[Katherine Maher, 1931 University of California|http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7341/12153586804_7c59ede9f8_o_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/12153586804/]] | [img[Katherine Maher, 1930 University of California|http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3709/12153435193_6cc924d01b_o_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/12153435193/]] |
|>| Born 18 July 1897 in New York City |
|>| Married Armin Uhler circa 1932 |
|>| Death date unknown, possibly in Europe |
//January 23, 2014//
Last night I had a dream that I was talking with a relative of Katherine Uhler. He didn't know her last name, but said that his mother was her niece. Excitedly, I shared her full name with him, and that she married Armin Uhler. Upon waking this morning, I decided that it's time to write about Katherine.
For a few months of last year, I thought Katherine was my [[great-grandfather's half-sister|Joe's half-sister]]. DNA testing of Katherine's distant cousins later showed that to be unlikely. But I remain intrigued by Katherine. From the outset of the [[52Ancestors]] Challenge, I planned to write about both Katherine and her father. They are two of my "[[Orphaned Ancestors]]" – people who left little trace in genealogical records and are now largely forgotten. These orphans of history have few or no living descendants. I have adopted them and devote some of my time to preserving their memory, even though we have no biological relationship.
Katherine Lavelle Maher was born July 18, 1897, the firstborn of James J. E. Maher and Anna O'Neill. The couple lived in Manhattan, and had married the prior October. James was a surgeon and gynecologist who married when he was nearly 40 years old. He was an Irishman born in Albany, earned his medical degree from ~McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 1883, and then began practice in New York City. Anna O'Neill, fifteen years his junior, was born in 1873 in Yonkers, NY. She was the daughter of [[Francis O'Neill]], probably from his second marriage; she had one or two full sisters and nine half-siblings from her father's third marriage.
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the late Francis O'Neill, who until after his death was supposed to be wealthy. She said that her husband's cruelty was due to his disappointment as to the amount of her inheritance. Mrs. Maher testified that her husband forced her to sleep on a sofa outside of his room for months, neglected her and their two children, and… [alleged] Dr. Maher was addicted to the use of cocaine, and when under its influence, abused and threatened to kill her. Several nurses corroborated her statements.
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Anna O'Neill Maher died before 1910. During the 1905 New York state census, her husband was living with a "partner" Emma L. Nichols, age 26. Marital status was not listed on the state census. Katherine did not appear with him, so I believe she was living elsewhere with her mother. I am currently waiting on a death certificate ordered for Anna. According to an Ancestry.com death index, an "Annie Maher" died June 5, 1908 in Manhattan, and was the correct age (35.)
During the 1910 Federal Census, James was listed as widowed, Katherine was living with him, and Emma Nichols (once partner) was now listed as his "niece." I can't find James in any subsequent census, but know that he lived until 1931. My supposition is that he and Katherine were estranged.
Remaining chronology of Katherine's life follows. I exhaustively followed her O'Neill lineage down to living relatives, in an effort to learn more about her. Most records I discovered were from her academic career.
* 1915 school year, she attended the New York State College for Teachers. This was listed in her educational background when she was teaching at [[Louisburg College|http://archive.org/stream/catalogueserial1936loui#page/n13/mode/2up/search/uhler]]. Text from her transcript I obtained from University at Albany SUNY:
**Name: Maher, Katherine Lavelle //[This is the only document I have showing her middle name.]//
**Place and date of birth: Brooklyn 7/18/97
**Name and address of Father or Guardian: Maher, Miss Anna F., 207 Madison Av., Albany, NY //[Her father's sister who never married.]//
**Where prepared for College: Mt. St. Mary's, Montreal
**Left Dec. 1916; Major Subject: French; Minor Subjects: History, Spanish
**Transcript sent to Univ. of Michigan 9/6/38
* During the 1920 census, Katherine lived with her mother's sister Claire [[O'Neill|Francis O'Neill]] Fleming (1886-1969) and cousin John "Jack" Fleming. Katherine's occupation was listed as an actress.
*1930-31 school years, Katherine attended the University of California. Her photographs appeared in the [[yearbooks here|https://archive.org/stream/southerncampus1930univ#page/377/mode/1up]] and [[here|https://archive.org/stream/southerncampushon1931univ#page/369/mode/1up]].
*Her husband Armin Uhler, still single, lived in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1930 Census.
*Katherine Uhler appeared in a 1932 city directory living in Charlotte. I have not yet located a marriage record or date.
*In June and December 1932, she returned from Le Havre, France according to New York passenger lists. Armin appeared on a separate arrival in November.
*Katherine earned a Master of Arts degree from Duke University in 1939. I obtained a copy of her thesis which was approved August 5, 1938. She seems to have been attending at the University of Michigan in the same time period, where her husband spent three years of research. By 1940, she and Armin were living in Ada, Ohio, where he was an assistant law professor at Ohio Northern University.
*Sometime in the 1940s, Armin took a position at the National Labor Relations Board and relocated with Katherine to Washington, D.C. By 1951, according to this [[register|http://books.google.com/books?id=wtQhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586]], Armin was the acting chief of the legal reference and publications branch.
*Katherine has one first cousin still living, Connie (Constance) [[O'Neill|Francis O'Neill]] Gourdeau, who remembers visiting Katherine in Washington, D.C. in the early to mid 50's. Connie is the daughter of Anna O'Neill's youngest brother Charles (1892-1969.)
*Connie confirmed the yearbook pictures above are Katherine's. She also stated that Armin and Katherine lived in Lugano, Switzerland in 1963. While there, Armin committed suicide by stepping in front of a train, "and we had notice of Katherine’s passing from a neighbor." I have not verified death dates for either.
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Katherine had no children, so I had to contact Maher cousins of hers to test the hypothesis of Dr. James J. E. Maher being my ancestor. His brother's great-grandson (through Julia Maher Johnson) submitted a DNA sample, as did his sister's great-granddaughter (through Mary Maher Spain.) They matched one another, but not my grandfather's DNA sample. With three samples to compare, it appears very unlikely that my orphaned ancestor was related to the Mahers of Albany, or to Katherine Maher Uhler.
''Katherine's husband Armin Uhler:
[img(40%,)[Armin Uhler in La Cigale 1962|http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2889/12145008023_8115e358fa_o_d.jpg
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[[Her Father's Gravesite|http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74450743]]''

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''Orphaned Ancestors'' are individuals who left little trace in genealogical records and are now largely forgotten. These orphans of history have few or no living descendants, and they were not famous or influential, so there are few people with an interest to retrieve and assemble the surviving details of their lives. I have adopted them and devote some of my time to preserving their memory. I discovered some of these people by happenstance, incorrect hypothesis (such as the Maher lineage of Albany, NY), or because they have a tangential connection to relatives of mine.
Many of these people will disappear into the sands of time, more than we can probably ever prevent. As time passes, cousins or acquaintances of theirs pass away, first and second-hand stories are not written down, photographs and papers are thrown away, and the chances fade of telling their stories with any personal detail. Nonetheless, I enjoy discovering and preserving those which I can.
# [[Katherine Maher Uhler]]

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[[52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks|http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/]] is a challenge began by Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog with the lovely name ''No Story Too Small:'' //Life is made of stories.//
Amy describes the premise as:
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Write once a week about a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, a research problem — anything that focuses on that one ancestor. The next week, write about a different ancestor.
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See Amy's [[list of ancestors|http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/amys-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/]].
I learned of this challenge from following Roberta Estes' ~DNAeXplained blog, which I highly recommend. Roberta shared her first story {{serif{[[Searching For Ilo's Son|http://dna-explained.com/2014/01/10/searching-for-ilos-son/]]}}} on January 10th.
[[About This Site's Technology]]

//''Lives Entwined In Us''// is a collection of family histories and genealogy research published by [[Andy Unrein|The Author]].
The [[Wiki|About This Site's Technology]] experience is meant to flow in a non-linear path of discovery chosen by each reader. Following a blue hyperlink does not take you to an entirely different webpage, but summons additional stories or pieces of media to flow into a growing column on your screen called "the story river." This content can be dismissed by clicking or tapping the <<image GreyX 12 12>> close button at the top right of each story, above the icon of my [[daughter's eye|Sara]].
Clicking or tapping the @@color(grey):►@@ arrow at the top of the screen hides the right Wiki title, search box and sidebar, to widen the viewable area of the stories. This arrow can be tapped again to bring back the sidebar.
Go ahead and try it out: follow the bold word ''Wiki'' in the second paragraph of this article, or here: [[About This Site's Technology]], which will show more content as explained. What I call stories or articles are known as "tiddlers" by users of ~TiddlyWiki, and that term is used in some of the examples below.
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Stories are "tagged" with identifiers or categories that allow you to find similar content. These tags are shown above each tiddler's title. The above example shows related stories listed when you click/tap on the ''post'' tag. Those tagged ''post'' automatically load, if recently edited, when you visit the main site //Lives Entwined In Us//. Tags also exist to identify [[52Ancestors]] and <<tag tangential>> or distant family connections, among other categories.
Clicking on ''references'' at the top of a tiddler links backward to other stories that directly refer to this one.
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Clicking on ''permalink'' creates a web link which you can bookmark or share by email to directly visit this particular story. The above example also shows by clicking/tapping on ''jump'', a menu is displayed of all active stories you have displayed (and not closed.) Choosing one from here is faster than scrolling through a long path of stories you've followed.
If you click or tap on the grey "eye" icon to the left of permalink, the raw story text is shown without pictures or formatting (text color, size, and wiki links.)
[img[Wiki navigation example|http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/12163181466_6caca8f587_b_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/12163181466/]]
The above example is the text marked up with codes that produces this formatted story for [[Katherine Maher Uhler]]. You can find references online to ~TiddlyWiki markup codes, and reading other people's examples is a good way to learn.
To the right of the stories is a timeline of all recently edited content, and a search box where you can type words to find any place they appear in the wiki. The ''permaview'' tool above that creates a web link that will recreate the current story river with all the tiddlers presently being viewed, not just a single story's link.
Writing, editing, and assembling this content, from the author's standpoint, is even more dynamic and non-linear compared to traditional websites or blogs, and there are more tools for the writer than those shown above. I encourage you to check out [[Tiddlyspace.com|http://tiddlyspace.com]], or [[email me|The Author]] with any questions about creating your own wiki.

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…hidden in ourselves
that code of DNA,
that secret spiral ladder
made up of bits and pieces
of the past that never dies
but lives entwined in us
—From "The Rope" by Loren Eiseley
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And yet they, who passed away long ago,
still exist in us, as predisposition,
as burden upon our fate,
as murmuring blood, and as gesture
that rises up from the depths of time.
—From Letter Six, 23 December 1903,
//Letters to a Young Poet// by Rainer Maria Rilke

Comments on this site are powered by Disqus. Just click the shaded bar at the bottom of each entry / story:
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If you choose to leave a comment, your email address is required, but you can check the box "I'd rather post as guest" so that no password is required.
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!What Is A Wiki?
*[[TiddlyWiki|http://tiddlywiki.com/]] was released by Jeremy Ruston in 2004, and created as "a non-linear personal web notebook" which he still actively maintains. See tips for [[Navigating This Wiki]].
* A Wiki is well suited to genealogy research, allowing spontaneous inter-connections to be made. Stories, lists, images and quoted passages from my research can all be gathered in one portable file. The text portion of ~TiddlyWikis can be edited on or offline. The technology is explained in more detail in the [[Wikipedia article|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki]]; Wikipedia itself being a "cousin technology" built on Wiki principles.
* This website is built upon ''~TiddlyWiki'' and hosted by [[Tiddlyspace|http://tiddlyspace.com/]]. Images are stored at Yahoo's Flickr service.

Click the "new tiddler" button towards the top right of the screen to write something in your space. You'll need to give it a title, some content and, optionally, some tags that will help you identify it later.
!Stuck for ideas?
Not sure what to write about? Not sure what to keep in your space? Other people use ~TiddlySpace for almost anything. How about some of the following:
* [[Save interesting sites|http://bookmarks.tiddlyspace.com]], images or articles from around the web so that you can refer back to them.
* [[Record your family tree|http://familytree.tiddlyspace.com]], store notes on long lost relatives or ancestors and map their relationship to you.
* [[Make up a pocketbook|http://pocketbook.tiddlyspace.com]] to store some useful information in, then print it out, [[fold it up|http://www.pocketmod.com/]], and take it with you.
* [[Plan your holiday|http://the-web-is-your-oyster.tiddlyspace.com/]], record where you're planning to go, note down places of interest and refer back to it later.
* [[Create a mindmap|http://mindmaps.tiddlyspace.com/]] to visualise your inner thoughts and see how they relate to each other.
* [[Set up a questionnaire|http://questionnaire.tiddlyspace.com/]] and get all your friends to answer it.
If you don't like any of those ideas, you can still use this space directly to keep notes and link them together, make a todo list and keep track of everything you're doing, or any one of a hundred million other things.
Still stuck? Check out the @featured space for more suggestions.
You can also [[socialise with others|How to socialise]].

The bond between parent/child is the first and most basic link in a series of relationships that knit families across time.
In normal circumstances, it is probably the most indestructible of all human relationships … and potentially the most harmful when the bond is compromised or blocked.
We won't all be so lucky to live 100 years with full health and mental agility, nor will each of our parents and grandparents. However, in recent times, most people can expect their own lifetime, extended by a child's, will likely reach 100 years. A century passes like an inhalation and exhalation in the history of the world: a child's birth, a parent's death.
So it is that we gaze further into the future through our children's eyes … while we are their memory and first-hand account of the time before their birth.

One of [[Elizabeth Breit|Elizabeth Breit Jacobs]]'s half-sisters Zita Clara Breit Rome died in Pueblo, Colorado – coincidentally about a year before my mother and father met there in 1979. My father is one of Lizzie's 80+ (estimated) great-grandchildren. My mother was born in Pueblo (1962), as was my first wife (1972) and I (1982.)
Combing Ancestry.com while preparing to write this, I learned that Zita Breit had a son Merlyn Rome (pronounced like //"row-mee"//) who died in Pueblo on May 13, 2000. I met the mother of my children in Pueblo in October 2000. At that time, I had no clue my great-grandmother Regina from the tiny, almost forgotten farming community of Pfeifer, Kansas had a first cousin named Merlyn Rome – who had called Pueblo home.

My father's father's father Joseph Unrein was an orphan born in 1898 in New York City. I don't know for certain that he had any half-siblings from his biological parents, but if they exist, I'd like to one day learn their identities.
Joseph's father was //thought// to be an ~Irish-American named James Magner. Katherine Maher was born in 1897 in New York City, to Dr. James Joseph Maher, an ~Irish-American approximately the same age as Joseph's recorded father. (As shown on the birth certificate.) For a few months of last year, we appeared to have a promising lead.
DNA testing of Katherine's distant cousins has since led to the conclusion that she and my great-grandfather were unrelated; so his paternity remains a mystery. But I remain intrigued by [[Katherine Maher Uhler]].

!Francis O'Neill
Born 1835 in Ireland, died 3 February 1895 in Yonkers, New York
[img[Francis O'Neill|http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5481/12156995635_0aac6d5e43_z_d.jpg][http://www.flickr.com/photos/114151783@N05/12156995635/]]
Image courtesy of Louise Snider Dunn, daughter of Margaret O'Meara, granddaughter of Theresa O'Neill O'Meara (one of Francis' daughters.)
Louise's uncle David John O'Meara (1917-2012) was the last grandchild of Francis' whom I have found, with the exception of Connie O'Neill Gourdeau. They are first cousins of [[Katherine Maher Uhler]] (1897-?) who I extensively researched. Katherine was born to Francis' daughter ''Anna O'Neill Maher'' (1873-1908?)
Other descendants of Francis O'Neill:
*''Theresa O'Neill'' (1888-1962) married David O'Meara, and her sister ''Agnes O'Neill'' (1873-?) married his brother William O'Meara. A grandson of Agnes and William is Donald G. O'Meara Jr.
*''Francis O'Neill Jr.'' (1876-1938) married Marie Grace Derickson, and had two sons. Their grandchildren include Peter S. O'Neill and Derick O'Neill of Idaho.
*''Peter Francis O'Neill'' (1878-1913) married Lillian Hendrickson, and had a son Robert O'Neill (1902-1985.)
*''John Stephen O'Neill'' (1880-1955) died in California, his son John Stephen Jr. (1915-1960) died in Oregon.
*''Elizabeth Mary O'Neill'' (1882-1930) married Carl Keppler, and their children were Elizabeth Hayden (1907-?) and Carl Keppler (1909-1999.)
*''Claire O'Neill'' (1886-1969) married John Joseph Fleming, divorced, and had one son Jack Fleming Jr. (1909-1969.) His grandchildren living today include Isabell Harrington Fransway and David Harrington Jr.
*''Charles Raymond O'Neill'' (1892-1969) married Constance Mahoney and had twin daughters: Connie O'Neill Gourdeau and Caroline O'Neill Stern.

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The ''maternal anchor'' of my mother's line, whose mitochondrial / mtDNA I carry, was another German woman named Katie Schuh, born 1876 in Westhofen, Darmstadt, Germany. I have thoroughly documented her descendants, and those of her mother ''Marie'', and found there are only two women of child-bearing years today who are direct female-line descendants (the daughter of a daughter of a daughter, etc…)
In comparison, [[Elizabeth Breit Jacobs]] has more female-line descendants than I can even count! One of them is my first cousin Katherine (Katie) Rose Franklin, who celebrates her 20th birthday this month. Katie is descended from Allisa Rose Unrein < Rosaline Frances Jacobs < Regina Jacobs < Elizabeth Breit < Katharina Eberle … stretching back into the distant past with a signature in their DNA they passed to all their children.
This mtDNA lineage stops at each male descendant. My father did not pass [[Lizzie Breit|Elizabeth Breit Jacobs]]'s mtDNA to me; instead I received ''Marie Schuh'''s from my mother. I did not pass that mtDNA to my children; they received ''Maria Juhar'''s of Hungary from their mother.
One of these days I will have one of Lizzie Breit's female-line descendants take the basic [[mtDNA test|http://familytreedna.com/]] offered by ~FamilyTreeDNA.com.